Howdy Monks,

Normally, to serve a dynamic graph (via STDOUT without having to write to the disk first) within a Webpage, I can just do that: 
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Apache::Request ();
my $r = shift;
$r->content_type('text/html');
$r->send_http_header;
print <<EOM;
<html><body>
<p>My Chart</p>
<p><img src=MyGD.pl></p>
<p>The End</p>
</body></html>
EOM

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That is, just point my image source to the Perl script that generates the graph. But how do I do something equivalent with a standalone HTML page on my desktop without CGI and Webserver?

Are there pure client-side scripting solutions (be it PerlScript, JavaScript or VBScript)?

I could use Net::Daemon to write a mini Webserver, and I did, but then I might as well use Apache. I could just use Tk as well, yet I'm curious how to serve a graph dynamically (via STDOUT without writing to disk first) on a standalone HTML page on my desktop (since if I let the browser, a PerlScript or a VBScript could read/write files or even execute programs from within a browser, so I thought it should be able to serve graph dynamically, and more or less easily as in CGI, from within a browser on client-side alone).

There got to be more than one way to do it, right? Without needing a Webserver and CGI at all.

Thanks.

In reply to <img src=MyGD.pl> w/o CGI? by chunlou

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